From the press release: Today, Copia announced that at CES 2011 multiple top tier OEMs will feature its platform on their tablets and mobile devices. By combining social networking and eBooks sales, Copia expands the parameters of the book as we know it. Readers can purchase books, highlight passages, take notes and share them, as [...]
Entries from December 30th, 2010
Kindle users already forming community lending libraries
December 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments · ebookstore news
by Chris Walters There are days when I love the Internet. It’s been less than 24 hours since Amazon rolled out ebook lending, and already there are at least four places online where you can lend and borrow Kindle titles with complete strangers.
Borders are BROKE!
December 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · ebookstore news
If you have any Borders gift cards laying around, now would be a good time to spend them. I just got off the phone with a Borders PR rep. She read me the official statement about Borders’ current financial crisis. I’m going to quote it in its entirety because this one is scary. If I [...]
Overdrive saw record traffic over Christmas
December 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Perhaps that’s why I’ve heard reports that their servers were running slow on the day after Christmas. Anyway, Overdrive have posted some traffic stats for Christmas weekend. This was the first time ever tjat ebook traffic surpassed audiobook. To show you what happened in one month, we’ve compared usage from Nov. 26-28 (around US Thanksgiving) [...]
B&N now sell more ebooks than paper books
December 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
That’s what they say in the press release. But if you read it a second time you’ll notice that it only refers to their website, not their brick and mortar stores. From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that with millions of NOOK eReading devices sold, [...]
Amazon’s new lending feature is probably going to anger some publishers
December 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters When it comes to Kindle features, Amazon tends to follow the aphorism that it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission. This strategy doesn’t always work–see the text-to-speech controversy–but it helps give Amazon the element of surprise in the marketplace. With that in mind, I have a feeling that some indie publishers are [...]
Tags:amazons·anger·feature·lending·publishers
How to browse the web on the Kobo Wifi
December 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · tips and tricks
This is an update to my post from earlier this week. Now that I’ve worked out how to do it I thought this was worth a repost. I found a post on MobileRead the other day where someone demonstrated that he had managed to visit Wikipedia on his Kobo Wifi. I’ve tried it and I [...]
Free demo video: How to make an iPad magazine with inDesign
December 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebook tools
A few weeks ago Adobe hosted a webinar on some of the advanced features of Adobe inDesign. They show you how to make some pretty impressive iPad magazines. They recorded the webinar and you can watch it here. This is way outside my experience so i asked a number of app developers what they thought [...]
You can now lend a Kindle ebook
December 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
I just got word over twitter that Amazon have enable ebook lending for the Kindle. Here’s the summary from the help page, and you can find out ore from Amazon. Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a period of 14 days. The borrower does not need to own a Kindle — Kindle books [...]
B&N planning for afiliated ebookstores
December 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
There’s a story going around today about B&N and the trademarks they’ve filed with the USPTO. All the gadget blogs are focusing on the Nook2 trademark and it looks like everyone has missed the big story.
Tags:afiliated·bn·ebookstores·planning
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